Thursday, January 28, 2010

DAYBREAKing from the Pack

By Marla Newborn

If I were a zombie, I would be jealous. Vampires have more
popularity and are clearly all the rage these days. Of course, this trend
didn’t begin just now, but boy, has it taken off with lightning speed. One
could say it began with HBO’s TRUE BLOOD—where, due to the availability of the
right type of blood, vampires went from scary monsters to ordinary—but
sexy—citizens practically overnight. Or was it with the TWILIGHT books and
movies that offered female fans a series of romantic supernatural fantasies?
And then there’s always THE VAMPIRE DIARIES on the CW, a series that shrewdly
mixes teen drama and the supernatural.

DAYBREAKERS, the currently playing Lionsgate film written
and directed by the Spierig Brothers, refreshingly takes the subgenre into
fresh vampiric territory while managing to continue some of our more beloved
myths. The year is 2019. A deadly plague has hit the Earth, and most of the
world’s population are bloodsuckers. Humans remain endangered and second-class
citizens (to say the least), as they are forced into hiding while being hunted
and farmed for blood. However, unlike the many worlds we’ve seen overtaken by
our friends the zombies, this society seems to function quite well and everything
is in order: People (for lack of a better word) go to work, have families, cars
and homes—they just do all of their living at night.

The big problem, and the source of the story’s tension, is
that the blood supply is running low, which means not enough food to serve the
world. Enter Edward Dalton, played by Ethan Hawke, a researcher whose job it is
to find a substitute so the ruling population does not starve. Edward, of
course, is a vampire himself, but he’s also a man who loathes what he has
become and has refused to feed on human plasma. He must do his job, but he
secretly has a big heart for the human race as it slowly dissipates.
Circumstances lead Edward to meet Audrey (Claudia Karvan) and her group of
surviving humans, and this encounter introduces him to a medical breakthrough
that will decide the fate of the human race.

DAYBREAKERS sports a great cast. I couldn’t help thinking of
GATTACA while watching Hawke play his part, yet he does stretch a bit and shows
us some range of emotion as Edward. Sam Neill is excellent as Edward’s boss
Bromley, an “evil let me take over the world” type with twinges of compassion
for his daughter, who would rather remain human. And of course, there’s Willem
Dafoe—whom I adore, but have rarely seen him in a role like “Elvis” Cormac,
Audrey’s friend and crossbow-wielding fellow resistance fighter (though there’s
a trace of his part from BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY in this character). This
would have been a perfect part for Woody Harrelson, who has admittedly perhaps
been overexposed lately; that said, Elvis is a lot of fun and adds humor to
this otherwise bleak world.

But any possible quibbles with the casting are
inconsequential thanks to the world the Spierigs have created. The brothers
have opened up the vampire genre into a whole new playing field—for example,
the undead feeling sorry for humans and the situation not being so
black-and-white. In this vision of 2019, there is order rather than chaos, and
we’re never shown the insanity that must have ensued when the vampire virus
began taking over. When the film opens, all is copacetic—but the story doesn’t
need that sort of anarchy to create a sense of conflict.

And
of course, the movie delivers in terms of horror: There are scary scenes of
blood and guts, along with tension that hums from the moment the film begins to
its climax. DAYBREAKERS is new and exciting and fresh. If you haven’t seen it
yet, check it out!

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